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《Vanished Name》 S1·E1 (04:10) HSK 5
nà chéng běn kě tài dà le

那成本可太大了

“The cost would be huge.”

《Vanished Name》 S1·E1
TIMECODE: 04:10 · 1080P MASTER AUDIO

THE DIALOGUE REEL

1+1+1 SPOKEN CONTINUITY
[-1] PREVIOUS TURN zhè shū dōu yìn chū lái le gǎi gè shǔ míng de huà jiù dé chóng yìn

“The book is printed. Changing the credit means reprinting.”

nà chéng běn kě tài dà le CURRENT FOCUS

那成本可 太大了

“The cost would be huge.”

[+1] FOLLOW-UP TURN zán men chū bǎn shè yě dé kǎo lǜ kǎo lǜ jīng jì xiào yì shì ba

“Our publishing house has to consider profitability, right?”

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Scene: Workplace
Function: EMPHASIZING COST
Tone: PRAGMATIC
Emotion: CONCERN
WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN (PRAGMATIC SUBTEXT)
“Changing the byline is out of the question because it costs too much money.”
💡 Cultural Insight: Indirect Workplace Refusal

In Chinese business and professional contexts, people frequently cite objective external factors like financial cost rather than saying a flat 'no' to preserve workplace harmony.

INTENT TAGS: #dissuasion #justification #indirect_refusal #cost_emphasis
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LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES

1 CHUNKS · 1 PARTICLES
成本太大了 SPOKEN CHUNK

the cost is way too high

A practical spoken phrase used in business or daily decisions to reject an idea based on excessive expense or effort.

Modal Particle「了」 (le) CHANGE OF STATE

Functions with '太' (too/excessively) to heighten emphasis on the excessive degree of cost.

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VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS

1 EXPR · 1 GRAMMAR
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